 | | | Mail boxes and LDAP | Mail boxes and LDAP 2006-08-14 - By Rick Stevens
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On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 11:17 -0500, Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have had sendmail running on my RHEL 3 server for sometime now but
> we are very soon going to start pointing all of our servers to our
> LDAP server to do authentication.
>
> All user account information will now be on the LDAP server and not on
> the local passwd and shadow files. I am wondering how I could
> continue to receive email on the local system for all the new users
> that will be only created in LDAP?
>
> I have tested the LDAP authentication and I have tested the IMAP
> login; it all works I can login cause PAM takes care of that but I am
> wondering if that would be the case for any incoming emails for users
> that are now hosted on the LDAP server?
>
> What will happen is that mail will be sent for our users after the
> account has been created on LDAP, but I need to have my sendmail
> server accept that email for this user and create a mailbox on the
> local system. I do NOT want their emails to get bounced.
>
> If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.
As long as ALL machines authenticate from the LDAP server, you should
have no problems. Provided you set up LDAP correctly, the only thing
that changes is the location of their user info and their passwords
(from local files to LDAP). Their local directories, mailboxes, etc.
remain unchanged. You can think of LDAP as "NIS on steroids".
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